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...town. (Currently I live in Hong Kong.) We bring Noah his favorite foods: sushi, fresh fruit and Japanese crackers and take him for a walk or a ride. Sometimes he lashes out at me. Spitting. Scratching. Pulling hair. But he knows me; I can tell by the wary squint he gives me. We're brothers, after...
...substance that causes botulism, a sometimes fatal form of food poisoning. It sounds scarier than it is; in small quantities, Botox merely interrupts nerve impulses to muscles in the face. The lines that furrow the forehead when you raise your eyebrows, the crow's feet that appear when you squint and the creases between the eyebrows when you frown are all caused by tension in underlying muscles, which contract and squeeze the skin like an accordion. Botox keeps this from happening...
...raise your eyelids all the way; or, if you're getting shots around the mouth, a mistake could leave you drooling. But even a perfectly executed procedure has consequences. Depending on which wrinkles you go after, you might not be able to frown or raise your eyebrows or squint...
...wills between Dylan and the audience (on the “Albert Hall” live recording, he can be heard instructing his band before “Like a Rolling Stone,” “Play fucking loud”). Yet if you squint your eyes slightly at the cover of Love and Theft, the curly-haired stick figure looks uncannily like the cocky scarecrow poet who appraised the world from the cover of Blonde on Blonde. He’s back...
...Besides, durable-goods orders had fallen a revised 2.6 percent in June. Which makes 0.6 percent look sort of like a comeback, if you squint your eyes hard enough...